1999 A Public Art Commission for the City of San Jose
Morrill Avenue & Cataldi Drive, San Jose, CA

On visiting San Jose’s Cataldi Park, I was attracted to a small
grove of black walnut trees. I later learned, while researching San
Jose history, that the entire area was once covered with orchards of
these trees. To commemorate this agricultural past, I created a gently
meandering path with the shape of black walnut leaves embossed into
the concrete surface. In the center of the path, I designed a large
circular seating area. A Japanese Haiku about falling leaves was embossed
into the surface, written in Japanese as well as translated into English: